2. Noun. (plural of puritan) ¹
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Definition of Puritans
1. puritan [n] - See also: puritan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puritans
Literary usage of Puritans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1909)
"THE puritans, NORTH AND SOUTH From NY Address, Sons of the Revolution. THERE is
in the South much of "sound and simple faith. ..."
2. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"By the year 1638 the popula- virginia tion of Virginia had come to contain more
than 1000 puritans, or about seven per cent, of the whole. ..."
3. Publications (1848)
"The suffer- Now for their sufferings : as the puritans have not comparably ...
116, Neal's puritans, i. 226, 319.] Udall in prison, he bled freshly, ..."
4. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"During the reign of James, the gulf between the Anglican Church and the puritans
was widened, chiefly in consequence of two changes which took place in the ..."
5. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"puritans. The Church has the sole power of reformation, and ought not to be
subject to ... T-» 1 1 iiij ,1 «j • formity in religion, the puritans being as ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Some of the puritans also sailed for Virginia, whereupon the ... The puritans
adopted its positions, but the court clergy rejected them, and ПОЛУ the Book ..."
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